Shura Quotes

Most great records really start with the drums.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can't lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I'd really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn't feel natural to me.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role anyway.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.